The Harvard Classics, Volumen39

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Página 31 But I plead the cause of all the godly, and consequently of Christ himself, which,
having been in these times persecuted and trampled on in all ways in your
kingdom, now lies in a most deplorable state ; and this indeed rather through the
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Página 32 But it shall be yours, Sire, not to turn away your ears or thoughts from so just a
defence, especially in a cause of such importance as the maintenance of God's
glory unimpaired in the world, the preservation of the honor of divine truth, and
the ...

Página 34 Review, Sire, all the parts of our cause, and consider us worse than the most
abandoned of mankind, unless you clearly discover that we thus " both labor and
suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God,"" because we believe that "
this ...

Página 35 It is indeed very easy for them to insult a deserted cause with the credulous and
ignorant multitude; but, if we had also the liberty of speaking in our turn, this
acrimony, which they now discover in violently foaming against us with equal ...

Página 48 Should they not have dissembled for a time, or rather have rejected and deserted
that Gospel which appeared to be the nursery of so many disputes, the cause of
so many dangers, the occasion of so many offences ? But in such difficulties as ...

Página 261 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.

Página 174 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

Página 322 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...

Página 220 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.

Página 301 - ... the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. In this mood successful composition generally begins, and in a mood similar to this it is carried on...

Página 182 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.

Página 220 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern j writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his / readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His ^ characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world...

Página 173 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.